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-term liquidity insurance purposes and for longer-term funding purposes for issuing covered bonds or asset-backed securities. We then … explore the determinants of the choice of using bank loans for short-term liquidity insurance purposes or long-term funding …
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Despite a large and growing theoretical literature on flights to safety, there does not appear to exist an empirical characterization of flight-to-safety (FTS) episodes. Using only data on bond and stock returns, we identify and characterize flight to safety episodes for 23 countries. On...
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In this contribution, we present a novel instrument to control for investment opportunities in studying the investment-cash-flow sensitivity. More in particular we introduce the book value of R&D. We argue this instrument has advantages over other theories of investment, especially when...
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ground much more the interpretation of the sensitivity of investment to liquidity variables such as cash flow as a measure of …
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to high liquidity to slow growth. In light of this we discuss the possible implications of the development of stock …
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Liquidity occupies a central importance for many areas of finance. But there are very disparate views of liquidity, and … correspondingly many different policy implications attached to these views. In this paper, I consider the many faces of liquidity and … their implications for financial market stability. In particular, I focus on the traditional economics view of liquidity as …
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We analyse a model of financial intermediation in which intermediaries are subject to moral hazard and they do not invest socially optimally, because they ignore the systemic costs of failure and, in the case of banks, because they fail to account for risks which are assumed by the deposit...
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We use a unique longitudinal dataset that tracks the exporting behavior of Belgian manufacturing firms between 1997 and 2009. We ask how slack resources, including financial and human resource slack, influence firms’ exporting behavior. Our findings suggest that both types of slack resources...
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